After publishing a new taxonomic status of a fish species in several scientific journals, what is necessary for fish databases to accept this new status?
Hello Rafael, Well, in terms of taxonomy and nomenclature, they suggested you contact the people in charge of the Catalog of the Fishes, at California Academy of Sciences (e.g. Ronald Fricke), so that they can update the data of your species of interest. Later, other catalogs such as Fishbase , update this information, but I suggest you contact them as well. A hug and take care
Dear Rafael,
I think it all depends on the amount of information and evidence the publication contains, if the new status will be accepted.
If the publication leaves some doubt or does not treat all the issues involved, then the status change will not be accepted, unless some other researcher can provide some additional information.
Dear Rafael,
Registration in Zoobank is a must for a new species.
Just get in touch with FishBase staff and suggest them new taxonomic status, providing references.
In my experience, while "Catalogue of Fish" readily accepts the new status of a species based on scientific manuscripts, this is not the case with "Fishbase", which is more reticent to such changes. This has happened to us with Lepidon eques, a junior synonym of Lepidion lepidion but also with other species such as Gaidropsarus guttatus or G. biscayensis.
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